Starting from just a few shipping containers on that small corner of land to in excess of 9,000 storage units across our stores today, we have learned a few things on the way and hope that we will delight you with both our customer service and our modern and safe storage facilities.

Our company vision can be summarised simply as: Delivering Standards of Excellence. At Space Station, it’s our mission to provide safe and secure self-storage facilities to both businesses and private customers – something we’ve been doing successfully for over 40 years.

Our history

Space Station was founded by former McLaren Formula 1 team manager Alastair Caldwell, way back in 1983. His career was a huge success with endless highlights, with the most notable being the glory years of 1974-76 and his management of legendary driver James Hunt.

During his time with the F1, Alastair embarked on a world tour, and it was a trip to the US that sparked his idea for Space Station. After admiring the innovative self-storage facilities across the US, he decided to bring the business idea back across the pond, making Space Station one of the UK’s earliest storage pioneers.

The very first Space Station store was opened in Colbrook in 1983, and quickly the business started to expand. 50 containers grew to 100, and before Alastair knew it a second site in Brentford (now known as Chiswick) was born. 1992 introduced the Isleworth store, followed by our Slough store in 1997.

The early noughties saw the launch of Uxbridge and Swiss Cottage, while Kings Heath and St John’s Wood opened later in 2015, and Cricklewood in 2018. Shrewsbury store joined the family in May 2021 followed by Daventry on 1st October. In 2023 we continued to expand in the Midlands at Hall Green, Stirchley and Castle Bromwich, and in 2024 we opened stores in Wakefield, Garrets Green Lane and Kilburn.

Today, Space Station has over 9,000 self storage units across our stores, and was acquired by Heitman – a global real estate investment management firm – in October 2020

What our customers are saying?

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That a business is helpful and efficient is everything you hope for. When they are unwaveringly friendly about it it’s a delight. Thanks.

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